IGP:FoundationXHTML

What is it?

Infogrid Pacific have designed IGP:FoundationXHTML (FX) to address the full spectrum of content ownership requirements for publishing and republishing valuable content, while controlling costs and complexity. It is a fully standards compliant XHTML 1.1 Strict DTD file. It uses highly structured and grammar controlled ID and Class statements to address the widest range of publishing needs for publishers, business organizations of all kinds and individuals.

What does it do?

FX does not constrain the presentation quality or ability to represent any book in a facsimile or republished form.  It does simultaneously addresses the following content management and reuse demands being made on valuable content today:

• Archiving: High value tagging and archiving, with variable and expandable metadata.
• eBook generation: Processor driven production and customization for current formats and high readiness for formats not yet created
• Content Objects: Deconstruction of Content into content objects for reuse and business on content. eg. Using the companion IGP:Reader/Writer eCompile functionality. 
• Rights Control: Rights assertion on works, part-works and content objects
• Online Presentation: Online presentation including subscription, with variable content rights assertion
• Authoring: Online authoring of new documents for publishing and business including topic based authoring such as DITA, and learning objects such SCORM
• Learning Object Packaging and Distribution: Creation, management and distribution of learning objects (DITA, SCORM)
• Facsimile Reproductions: Creation of Line-by-Line PDF (LBLTM PDF), as digital restorations (when source content is scan/OCR'ed).
• Print Reflow: of content for reprint using XSLT:FO and CSS-3

 Why does it exist?

To achieve these objectives content must be encoded in a reliable, standardized manner that allows the development of current and future processors. Content is irreducible complex across the information continuum, and many tagging grammars are possible and exist. Content is an infinite set of data, with an infinite set of interpretations to address the requirements of different individuals and organizations.  FX is another semantic tagging interpretation of the content universe. What makes it different is that it has been designed from a decade of digitization and content processing experience across millions of pages of academic, business and educational material, and it has been purposely designed with low total cost of ownership as a significant objective.